Discover the Sunday Division Squad Boasting 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How can you boost a excellent experienced squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a group of former professionals that have played at the highest level of club and global soccer as you target further silverware.

One Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The lineup this season includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a